Alcohol Ink Stash Card

Good day to you all!

Today I have a card that I made when I decided to 

just use papers from my stash of  background papers 

that I made in the past.

I challenged myself to use this background piece that

I wasn't all that crazy about.

I decided to embrace the circles, so I punched out

the scalloped circles from another piece from my stash,

then the small circles from a scrap of the orange piece.

I layered them up and adhered it to a scrap of yellow card stock.

I stamped the sentiment on another scrap of yellow card stock.

Added onto a white card base and it was done.

This is a little different than my usual style,

but I think I did pretty good with a piece I didn't care for.

Thanks for coming by to check out what I've been creating.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

try working with something different and out of your

comfort zone.

 

Swap Tag and Card

Hello and welcome!

I'm in a small online group of friends who

are doing swaps.
For the month of August, the theme was

"All that glitters"
I could make whatever I wanted to make.

Usually they are ATCs, tags or cards.

This month I chose to make a tag for my friend

Becky.

I cut a mask and stencil from 

adhesive stencil material using my Silhouette Cameo.

I first put down the mask of the lady and

ink blended around her.
Then I removed the mask and put the stencil

down, so only the lady was showing.
I used a VersaMark pen to "color" in the

hair and dress areas and applied 

embossing powder and glitter embossing powder

to those areas.
For the face and arms I used colored pencils 

to get a skin tone.

"Just be fabulous"

 was printed with my 

label maker on clear label tape.

I wish the glitter of it showed up better in the picture.

I really enjoyed making this tag.

I always like to send a hand made card along with my 

swap, so I made this card.

I wanted it to go along with the theme of the swap, so I used

silver reactive foil. When some of the alcohol ink was 

still a bit damp I laid down the foil, gave it a good

rub and then pulled it up, leaving random areas

of silver foil behind.

The alcohol ink and foil were done on vellum,

then it was layered onto a shimmery silver card stock

and finally onto pink and a white card base.

I was very happy with the card and tag alike

and Becky said it made her day 

when she received them.

I'm so glad you have stopped in today to see what

I've been creating.
I hope you have been inspired in some way and

will come again soon.

Until then,

glitter something up.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Baby Shower Card

Good day!

Today I have a card I made for a baby shower

to show you.

I bought the svg file from the 
Silhouette Design Store

and cut it on my Silhouette Cameo.

As fine as some of the cuts are, it was an

easy one to cut and weed.

I adhered the die cut to the background paper, 

added the cloud with the greeting and

then added it all to a white card base.

To be honest, I actually cut the image larger

than I intended, so I made it into a square card,

but I'm glad, as I like how it turned out.

I wrote a personal note inside the card to go

with the shower gifts.

Thanks for stopping by today, 
I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

embrace your "mistakes"

As I always say, there are no mistakes in 

crafting, only chances to be more creative.

 

Spin Painting Clean Up #3

Hello creative people!

Today I have one more card that I made from 

the spin painting clean up.

After spin painting with Marie, the paint dried onto

the inside of the salad spinner that we used.

I peeled that paint off and glued it onto

pieces of card stock.

For this card, I layered the piece with the paint onto

black card stock, which I think really sets it off.

I then layered that onto a piece of hand made paper that I

had from a paper making session a few months ago.

I like he rough tear on the hand made paper for this

card.  It was then adhered to a white card base.

The inside was left blank to be used for whatever 

it is needed for.

I'm glad you stopped in today, I hope you were inspired in some 

way and will come back soon.

Until then,

try something new!

 

Using What I Have

Hi crafty people!

Today I'm showing you a couple cards that I 

made, using some of the things in my stash.

The background piece is a piece of card stock 

from my stash of gelli prints.  I've had it a long time,

so have no idea exactly how I made it.  Probably just 

craft paints on my gelli plate.
The leaves are some eco printing that I did, by placing 

leaves onto card stock and running them through my 

Cuttlebug

The shine sentiment is from a random set in my stash.

Once it was stamped onto a piece of the eco print card,

it was layered onto a piece of the gelli print card.

This purple and turquoise background piece was made with

Dylusion sprays that were sprayed onto a piece of photo paper.

The leaves were an eco print from my stash.

I decided to leave this with no sentiment on the outside

or the inside to make it a note card to be used for 

whatever I need at the time.

I'm glad you stopped by today to see what I've been up to.

I hope you've been inspired in some way and 

will come again soon.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates!

Until then,

use your stash!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Baking With Marie

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing a couple layouts with you.

Sara and I both love baking with Marie and have for

a long time now.  She is only 3, but has been baking almost

since she could stand and walk.

She started out just licking batter, but now she 

measures and mixes with us.

Since I didn't have any embellishments of cooking

utensils, I made my own.

The whisk in the picture above doesn't show very well

in the picture, but it was drawn onto glitter paper and cut

out with a craft blade.  The spoons and cup were drawn and

fussy cut.

The oven mitt was free hand drawn and fussy cut also.

I found a scrap of wood grain paper and

drew and cut out the rolling pin.

This is another layout that was a simple one to 

put together.  I had the printed papers for years and 

knew that one day I'd find a layout to make with them.

This little gal puts love into everything.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you were inspired in some way and 

will come again soon.

Until then,

have fun with a child!

 

be yourself

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a card to share with you.

This was made with some things I had on my desk

and in my stash.

I had gotten this hexagon die from Temu

and was trying it out in different ways.

It was sitting on my desk and I decided to 

use it for a card.  I had cut the "outline" with the

die and cut another with different paper.  I simply

glued the pieces into the outline on a piece of

pink card stock.
I cut that to size and adhered it to a card base.

The "be yourself" was from a set of printed sentiments

 from my stash and layered onto another piece of  pink 

card stock, and my card was done.

This card is only 3.25" x 4.50"

so it's a small one but I love it.

Thank you for spending time here today.

I hope you will come again soon.

Until then,

use your stash!

 

Spin Painting Clean Up #2

Hello and welcome!

Today I have a couple more cards that I made

with the clean up from doing spin painting with 

Marie.
This is the paint that was dried onto the inside

of the salad spinner after making some 

spin painting prints.
I simply peeled it off and glued it to 

pieces of card stock.

I wanted to do something a little different for this

card, so I adhered the piece with the paint onto 

a piece of white card stock.
I folded that and adhered it to a piece of

heavy weight hand made paper.
The hand made paper was torn to A2 size.

Inside I stamped this sentiment from my stash.

I love how this card turned out, it's a little outside

the box for me and I love it.

I had this small piece of "paint clean up" on an odd

sized piece of card stock, so I cut it down to add

to the side of a card.

I then added the sentiment onto black card stock and

onto a piece of mulberry paper.  
I left the inside blank on this one.

So glad you stopped by today,

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will come again.

Until then,

use something that is usually thrown away

to make something creative.